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Pre-School Education and School Performance The Case of Public Schools in Montevideo
(2010-03-17)In this paper we try to explain the academic performance of a sample of children starting their first year at public schools in 1999 in Montevideo, Uruguay. We are mainly interested in the effect of pre-school education ... -
Wages and Immigrant Occupational Composition in Sweden
(2010-03-17)This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and ... -
Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars
(2010-03-03)We develop a conflict model linking dissipation to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999) to include a mixed ... -
Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Determinants
(2010-02-18)Trees have multiple purposes in rural Ethiopia, providing significant economic and ecological benefits. Planting trees supplies rural households with wood products for their own consumption, as well for sale, and decreases ... -
Bio-economics of Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Developing Countries
(2010-02-15)Improvement in soil carbon through conservation agriculture in developing countries may generate some private benefits to farmers as well as sequester carbon emissions, which is a positive externality to society. Leaving ... -
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
(2010-02-01)We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their firstand second-order beliefs. We find that ... -
After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur
(2010-01-29)In this article, we use a unique database on 542 villages in southwestern Darfur to analyze patterns of population growth and land reallocation that have emerged as a consequence of the recent conflict. Our analysis ... -
The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure
(2010-01-22)This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to explain long-run government spending: Wagner’s Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We analyze data spanning from ... -
POSITIONAL PREFERENCES IN TIME AND SPACE: IMPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION
(2010-01-22)This paper concerns optimal nonlinear taxation in an OLG model with two ability-types, where people care about their own consumption relative to (i) other people’s current consumption, (ii) own past consumption, and (iii) ... -
Altruism and Career Concerns
(2010-01-22)The paper studies the impact of altruism on Agent’s motivation in the career concerns model. I show that career concerns incentive is lessened by altruism. As a consequence, altruism can decrease effort, though conventional ... -
Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
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Renewed Growth and Poverty Reduction in Zambia
(2009-12-21)The Zambian economy has grown relatively fast over the last decade up to the current global financial crisis. This paper discusses the challenge of using these growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the ... -
What Explains the International Location of Industry? -The Case of Clothing
(2009-12-21)The clothing sector has been a driver of diversification and growth for countries that have graduated into middle income. Using a partial adjustment panel data model for 61 countries 1975-2000, we investigate the global ... -
On blending mandates, border tax adjustment and import standards for biofuels
(2009-12-09)The transport sector is a major contributor to green house gas (GHG) emissions and its share is increasing. Biofuels may pro- vide an option to replace fossil fuels and generate an increasing worldwide interest. Rich ... -
Contracting Under Reciprocal Altruism
(2009-12-09)I show that a simple formal model of reciprocal altruism is able to predict human behavior in contracting situations, puzzling when considered within selfishness assumption. For instance, motivation and performance ... -
Adam Smith om språket
(2009-12-09)Adam Smith on language. Like most 18th century scholars, Adam Smith was not restricted to one field. One of his interests, besides economics, was language, which may partly be a consequence of his Scottish origin and the ... -
Discrimination in Scientific Review - A natural field experiment on blind versus non-blind review
(2009-12-09)This paper analyzes the impacts of gender, as well as other author characteristics, on reviewers’ grading of papers submitted to an international conference in economics in Sweden in 2008. Correcting for other variables, ... -
Design of stated preference surveys: Is there more to learn from behavioral economics?
(2009-12-09)We discuss the design of stated preference (SP) surveys in light of findings in behavioral economics such as context dependence of preferences, learning, and differences between revealed and normative preferences. More ... -
Ethnic Cleansing or Resource Struggle in Darfur? An empirical analysis
(2009-12-09)The con ict in Darfur has been described both as an ethnic cleansing campaign, carried out by the Sudanese government and its allied militias, and as a local struggle over dwindling natural resources between African ... -
Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation
(2009-12-08)We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of ...